The George Hotel

Had an afternoon tea voucher for christmas from my friend. I booked it 6 weeks in advance notifying them twice my friend was gluten free . Arrived no staff to be found had to go next door to the bar to ask. The afternoon tea came out my friends gluten free one had no scones and nothing to replace them which is what makes an afternoon tea! They had plenty of notice so no excuses. Only the finger of sandwiches and as for the cakes they were gluten free biscuits that you buy in a shop! My actually had to go and buy her own leaving the afternoon tea to do so!! As for my afternoon tea the cakes were obviously out of the freezer and soggy on the bottom. Had to find someone again for the tea and again had to ask for more tea . I have never had such an awful afternoon tea. Emailed twice regarding this and have had no response. Terrible service.

We had afternoon tea at The George today and I would have given it a higher rating but there was an issue with dietary needs. On booking we stated that I wasn’t able to have cheese, egg or white bread (I have a high intolerance and become unwell very quickly) they wrote this down. We then had to rearrange the date and they repeated the dietary needs unprompted. Upon delivering the food to the table I was surprised to see cheese and pickle alongside ham and tuna sandwiches. There was one person serving and it took a while to get her attention, when we pointed out the error she apologised and blamed it on reception who hadn’t passed this info on and informed us that it said against our booking no fish. Either way the dietary needs were not taken into consideration (we were given cheese that I can’t eat and tuna which they said was on the dietary to not be served) I was going to leave it as someone else could have eaten the cheese sandwich but had it pointed out that for others this could have been very serious if dietary requirements are not followed. On the plus side the food was delicious and very generous in a nice setting. One oddity is that it was tea for 2 but 9 miniature deserts! It would be nice to have a little card or list of what the deserts are especially with the earlier errors with dietary needs, some places do this some don’t.

Can highly recommend Afternoon Tea. Celebrated a friend's birthday party here at The George. Everything was great, presentation, food, staff and round tables that facilitated good conversations and great laughs with all fellow guests. I recently also attended a charity dinner dance here and it was to the same high standard. Brilliant!

Two days ago I celebrated my 90th birthday with a wonderful tea party for 40 people. It was amazingly well arranged by the staff, entirely fitting all of my wishes and much beyond. Beautiful table linen, bone china tea-cups and saucers, amazing sandwiches, scones and other goodies as well as a non stop supply of tea and coffee and drinks for the Toast. Every guest thoroughly enjoyed it and my family greatly appreciated the care shown by Angela, and her team of wonderful staff. I would recommend it highly for any similar occasion or event.

I attended a 90th birthday celebration afternoon tea yesterday at The George Hotel & it was excellent. The room was set out beautifully with lovely crockery & pretty flower arrangements. There were plenty of delicious sandwiches, yummy scones & cakes. Angela, the event manager was very organised, personable & fun. I highly recommend!

Super cosy hotel… Will make this our default when visiting Wallingford, cosy room, great service and really good value for money. Did a super effort on Christmas decorations and hence photos… Definitely recommend…. Will be back in spring… xx